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The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (June 11 – June 17, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend
Hikes From Last Week by Dividend
Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a
current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the
recent week. In total, 15 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 7 have a
dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to
64.05 percent. Exactly five stocks/funds have a yield over five percent and ten are currently recommended to buy.

United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) has a market capitalization of $67.89 billion. The company employs 199,900 people, generates revenues of $58,190.00 million and has a net income of $5,374.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $9,387.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 16.13 percent (operating margin 13.92 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.24 percent).

Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 16.70 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 46.89 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.02 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.70. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.86 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 11.5 percent.

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Rockwell Automation (NYSE:ROK) has a market capitalization of $9.88 billion. The company employs 21,000 people, generates revenues of $6,000.40 million and has a net income of $697.10 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,051.50 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 17.52 percent (operating margin 14.46 percent and the net profit margin finally 11.62 percent).

Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 17.12 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 51.77 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 43.37 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.05. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.48 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 10.6 percent.

Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) has a market capitalization of $38.68 billion. The company employs 365,000 people, generates revenues of $69,865.00 million and has a net income of $2,929.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7,453.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 10.67 percent (operating margin 6.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 4.19 percent).

Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 37.49 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 110.50 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.71 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.34. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.15 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 20.0 percent.

Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) has a market capitalization of $56.72 billion. The company employs 127,238 people, generates revenues of $60,138.00 million and has a net income of $5,005.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $9,592.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 15.95 percent (operating margin 11.89 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.32 percent).

Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 42.47 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 268.51 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 41.57 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $7.92. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.82 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company announced to raise dividends by 13.0 percent.

Take a closer look at the full
table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth
amounts to 64.05 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.78
percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 17.58. The
average P/S ratio is 9.48 and P/B 4.03.

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What is a dividend? A dividend is a payment by the company to its shareholders. Normally, a stock pays 4 times a year a quarter dividend in order to participate investors at the company’s success. The amount of dividends in relation to the earnings of a company is called payout ratio. The figure measures the part of the earned money which is paid to the shareholders. A payout ratio of up to 50 percent (half of it's earnings) is a good figure. Sometimes it could be possible that companies can pay 90 percent of its net income due to its business model. Those businesses don’t need much money for growing.

The dividend amount in relation to the price that an investor pays is called the dividend yield. The value measures the return of the investor. A dividend yield of 5 percent (High-Yield) means that the investor receives 5 percent of his investment in cash - pretax within a year. This value is estimated for the full year dividends. Most of the highest yielding dividend stocks have only a big quarter dividend of more than one percent because of it's unsustainable dividends. The capital market expects a dividend dividend cut by the company.

An important date for investors is the ex-dividend date. This is the day on which the new investor doesn’t receive any dividend payments. He must wait 3 month for the next quarter dividend.

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What is a Stock? Stocks (also called stock or share) are part of the capital stock of a company. It represents the original equity paid into the company. The capital stock could be traded at well-known stock markets like the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or NASDAQ.Every stock or share represents a partition ownership to the company. A stock owner has the ability to receive dividends and has a voting right for the annual general meeting (AGM). The stock owner participates on the business opportunities and risks.

There are two main stock types available: common stock and preferred stock. A common stock gives the shareowner the ability to vote at the annual general meeting and to receive dividends. A preferred stock has no voting right but for compensation, a higher claim for earnings and assets.

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